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File:Thābit's Arabic translation of Apollonius' Conics.jpg|link=Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|882: Physician, astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]] publishes new theory of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] with applications in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1201 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian astronomer, biologist and theologian (d. 1274)


File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600:  Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600:  Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake.
||1723 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (d. 1762)
||1740 – Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and meteorologist (d. 1799)
||1754 – Nicolas Baudin, French cartographer and explorer (d. 1803)
||1781 – René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (d. 1826)


File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.


File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] publishes new theory of continuous symmetry with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]].
 
||1874 – Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
 
||1888 – Otto Stern, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
 
||1891 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1965)
 
||1890 – Ronald Fisher, English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist (d. 1962)
 
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1890:  Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on Navier–Stokes equations.
 
||Christopher Latham Sholes (d. February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and along with Frank Haven Hall, Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States.
 
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]].
 
||1905 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1977)
 
||1918 – Jacqueline Ferrand, French mathematician (d. 2014)
 
||1921 – Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (d. 2013)
 
||1930 – Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (d. 2013)
 
||1933 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (d. 1997)
 
||1934 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)
 
||1942 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (d. 1989)
 
||1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
 
||File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' increases risk of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
 
||1980: The Derrynaflan Chalice is an 8th- or 9th-century chalice, that was found as part of the Derrynaflan Hoard of five liturgical vessels. The discovery was made near Killenaule, County Tipperary in Ireland.


||1996 – NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
File:No Escape From Telephones.jpg|link=No Escape From Telephones|1953: Premiere of '''''[[No Escape From Telephones]]''''', an American science fiction thriller film about a police officer (Dick Tracy) who must bring a deranged computer (HAL 9000) to justice.


File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|2003: [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on [[high-energy literature]].
File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2009: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe makes its closest approach to Mars during a successful gravity assist toward Vesta. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.


File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|2012:  Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
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  • 1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.

    1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.

  • 1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.

    1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.

  • 1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of Georg Cantor.

    1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of Georg Cantor.

  • 1953: Premiere of No Escape From Telephones, an American science fiction thriller film about a police officer (Dick Tracy) who must bring a deranged computer (HAL 9000) to justice.

    1953: Premiere of No Escape From Telephones, an American science fiction thriller film about a police officer (Dick Tracy) who must bring a deranged computer (HAL 9000) to justice.

  • 2009: The Dawn space probe makes its closest approach to Mars during a successful gravity assist toward Vesta. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

    2009: The Dawn space probe makes its closest approach to Mars during a successful gravity assist toward Vesta. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

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